News published on Federal Newswire in June 2021

News from June 2021


News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Levii Delgado, 36, of Middletown, was sentenced today to six months of home confinement and over $13,000 in restitution by the Honorable Leonard P. Stark, Chief United States District Judge for the District of Delaware. Delgado pled guilty in February 2021 to one count of causing damage to a protected computer.


News Release: WASHINGTON-The top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) announced changes to his senior staff for the Committee, naming Joshua Snead as the new Republican chief trade counsel...


Troy Man Pleads Guilty to Trafficking Kilograms of Heroin

News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Carlos Leon Rivera, age 62, of Troy, New York, pled guilty today to conspiring to traffic more than 1 kilogram of heroin, and also admitted that the conspiracy involved up to 10 kilograms of heroin.


News Release: Cost of remedial measures is expected to be in excess of $100 million.


Announcing Sanctions on the Ortega Regime in Response to Arbitrary Detentions and Other Undemocratic Moves

Release: The United States calls on President Ortega and the Nicaraguan government to immediately release presidential candidates Cristiana Chamorro, Arturo Cruz, Félix Maradiaga, Juan Sebastian Chamorro and other civil society and opposition leaders arrested in the past week, including in last night’s crackdown,...


News Release: Petrified Forest National Park--Just in time for Great Outdoors Month, the National Park Service unveiled a top-ten list of visitation tips encouraging members of the public to Plan Like a Park Ranger this summer.


Former Ft. Bragg Employee Sentenced for Conspiracy and Theft of Government Property

News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - A man was sentenced today to 17 months in prison for conspiracy to steal government property and stealing government property. On Sept. 14, 2020, Morris Cooper pled guilty to the charges.


Portman Statement on May 2021 CBP Operational Data Showing Increased Flow of Illicit Narcotics

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released operational statistics for May 2021 regarding the crisis at our southern border...


News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Brainerd, Minnesota, man was sentenced in federal court today for wildlife trafficking and trespassing on Indian land after removing the head of a 700-pound black bear on the Red Lake Indian Reservation.


News Release: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced today that a press conference will be held tomorrow - June 10, 2021 - at 2:30 p.m., at the Warren S. Gall Police Annex at 3340 Mustang Street, Myrtle Beach SC 29577.


New Orleans Man Sentenced for Violating Federal Controlled Substances Act

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on June 8, 2021, CHRISTOPER BONDY, age 40, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced to 63 months imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Wendy B. Vitter for attempting to possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. Additionally, BONDY was ordered to serve 4 years of supervised release and pay a $100 special assessment fee. No fines were imposed in this case.


News Release: BOSTON - A Middleboro financial advisor was arrested and charged today with defrauding elderly clients and stealing retirement assets.


Car Wreck Fraud Defendant Pleads Guilty

News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Sebron Dejuan Brown, age 35, of Muskogee, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Conspiracy to Commit Odometer Tampering, in violation of Title 49, United States Code, Sections 32703(2) and 32709(b);...



News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. House Ways and Means Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) issued the following statement today regarding the G-7 nations agreement on new rules for taxing global companies...


Sioux City Meth Dealer Sentenced in Federal Court for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine

News Release: Hamilton had over 20 prior criminal convictions, including convictions for assaulting police officers.


News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Sturgeon Lake, Minnesota, man and an Aitkin, Minnesota, woman were sentenced in federal court today for producing and attempting to produce child pornography.


News Release: Flight from Los Angeles to Nashville diverted into Albuquerque due to in-flight disturbance.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.6 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to The Water Institute of the Gulf, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to develop the Lower Mississippi SmartPort...


Foxx: "Secretary Walsh has much to explain"

News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a Committee hearing examining the policies and priorities of the Department of Labor...